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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'read Corinne (42)'.Mary Godwin Anne Louise Germaine, Madame de StaelCorinne, ou d'ItaliePrint: Book
1800-1849'Rise - talk and read Corinne' / 'nurse the baby and read Corinne'Mary Godwin Anne Louise Germaine, Madame de StaelCorinne, ou d'ItaliePrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Anne Louise Germaine, Madame de StaelDe l'Allemagne
1800-1849'[love letters represent the only subject women] 'should ever attempt to write about. Madame de Stael even I will not except from this general rule; she has done a plague...Matthew Lewis Anne Louise Germaine, marquise de Stael Holstein Print: Book
1800-1849'Isle of Wight by Anne Maria Sargeant A light so varied bursts upon my view, ...'Bowly groupAnne Maria SargentThe Isle of WightUnknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 April 1842: 'Of course you know Mademoiselle de Monpensier's [sic] Memoires. They are most characteristically delightf...Elizabeth Barrett Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans, Duchesse de MontpensierMemoiresPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 July 1843: 'You must remember Mademoiselle de Montpensier's delightful memoirs. She was fifty or past it when she met L...Elizabeth Barrett Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans, Duchesse de MontpensierMemoiresPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 December 1844: 'If you do not remember the memoires of "La Grande Mademoiselle" as she was called, mind to read them ag...Elizabeth Barrett Anne Marie Louise Henriette d'Orleans Duchesse de MontpensierMemoiresPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Cintra Avenue
    22.IV.1938
1. Minutes of last read & approved.

[...]

The following essays wer...		Ethel C. Stevens Anne Thackeray Ritchie[Chapters from some memoirs / Chapters from Some U...Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House 31st May 1941
R. D. L. Moore in the chair

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.

[...]		Sylvanus A. Reynolds Anne Walter FearnMy days of strength: An American woman doctor's fo...Print: Book
1800-1849'read Lady Vavasour's "Last Tour, and First Work, or a visit to the Baths of Wildbad, & Rippoldsau". - It is only one Volume, & is very entertaining and often clever, & l...Sarah Harriet Burney Anne, Lady VavasourMy Last Tour and First Work; or, a Visit to the Ba...Print: Book
1800-1849'[Frances] Burney's little diary of "Consolatory Extracts Daily collected or read in my extremity of Grief at the sudden & tragical loss of my beloved Susan on the instan...Frances Burney Anne-Louise-Germaine baronne de Stael-Holstein 
1800-1849Scott probably knew de Stael, he was certainly acquainted with her work, friends, lifestyle etc. Here is a brief excerpt: '...the tendency of the last of her productions,...John Scott Anne-Louise-Germaine de StaelConsiderations sur les Principaux Evenements de laPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am not sufficiently fond of dissertations, of eternal analysis, of eloquent bubbles, to be a warm partizan of Mde de Staal [sic]. Between friends - but don't mention i...Sarah Harriet Burney Anne-Louise-Germaine, Baronne de Stael-HolsteinDe L'AllemagnePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am not sufficiently fond of dissertations, of eternal analysis, of eloquent bubbles, to be a warm partizan of Mde de Staal [sic]. Between friends - but don't mention i...Sarah Harriet Burney Anne-Louise-Germaine, Baronne de Stael-HolsteinZulma, et trois nouvellesPrint: Book
1900-1945'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a great deal of rubbish, and books that were too 'old', o...James Williams Anne/Charlotte/Emily Bronte Print: Book
1900-1945'I read Mrs Besant three times, and made fresh notes every time, in order to do the second part; [The Glimpse] a fearful grind; & the Theosophical Society ought now to re...Arnold Bennett Annie Besant?The Ancient WisdomPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 14 April 1935: 'Now for Alfieri & Nash & other notables: so happy I was reading alone last night [...] I read Annie S. Swan on her life with considerable respect. ...Virginia Woolf Annie S. SwanMy LifePrint: Book
1850-1899'Mr Edminson then read a paper on Mrs Besant's autobiography. Some discussion folowed. Mr Morland gave a summary of Fairbairn's Christ in Modern Theology which also excit...Frederick J. Edminson Annie Wood BesantAutobiography, AnPrint: Book
1850-1899'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Macaulay. His two favourite novels were Charles Dicken...Henry Rider Haggard Anon The Arabian NightsPrint: Book


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